The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract: The Classic - Brossura

James, Bill

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0743227220 ISBN 13: 9780743227223

Casa editrice: Free Pr, 2003

Riassunto

A decade-by-decade history of baseball features more than one thousand essays on such topics as the best minor league teams, the sport's one hundred top players, and uniforms, providing in the paperback edition an extended essay covering the 2001 and 2002 seasons. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

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L'autore:

Bill James made his mark in the 1970s and 1980s with his Baseball Abstracts. He has been tearing down preconceived notions about America’s national pastime ever since. He is currently the Senior Advisor on Baseball Operations for the Boston Red Sox, as well as the author of The Man from the Train. James lives in Lawrence, Kansas, with his wife, Susan McCarthy, and three children.

Product Description:

When Bill James published his original "Historical Baseball Abstract" in 1985, he produced an immediate classic, hailed by the "Chicago Tribune" as the "holy book of baseball." Now, baseball's beloved "Sultan of Stats" "(The Boston Globe)" is back with a fully revised and updated edition for the new millennium. Like the original, "The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract" is really several books in one. The Game provides a century's worth of American baseball history, told one decade at a time, with energetic facts and figures about How, Where, and by Whom the game was played. In The Players, you'll find listings of the top 100 players at each position in the major leagues, along with James's signature stats-based ratings method called "Win Shares," a way of quantifying individual performance and calculating the offensive and defensive contributions of catchers, pitchers, infielders, and outfielders. And there's more: the Reference section covers Win Shares for each season and each player, and even offers a Win Share team comparison. A must-have for baseball fans and historians alike, "The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract" is as essential, entertaining, and enlightening as the sport itself.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Free Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0743227220
• ISBN 13: 9780743227223
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 1008